I have been in direct communication with Team17 staff for quite some time now. Allow me to drop some facts about W.M.D. that might change some peoples' minds about the game:
1. The are seriously listening to the community this time around in terms of features and gameplay ideas. I know this to be 100% true from personal experience.
2. The WMD ninja rope is supposed to be identical to the W:A rope. I've seen plenty of gameplay footage, and based upon what I've seen, it looks the same to my eyes. (Keep in mind that most videos showing gameplay footage feature players using a controller.
3. For the first time since WWP, worms will be able to occupy the same space as another worm. Rope knocking is also confirmed to work properly.
4. The game is going to be cross-play compatible with basically every system. PC, Mac, Xbox One, PS4. Of course the PC players are going to have a huge advantage over the
console players, but this is great news because unlike with the past few Worms titles, the community will not be divided.
5. They are back to 6 teams with a max of 8 worms per, per match. Every game since Reloaded has had a max of 4 teams.
6. The item and weapon count for the game is supposed to be over 80, which is the biggest number yet. The weapons screens we have seen thus far are incomplete.
7. A lot of features and new weapons haven't even been announced yet.
8. The game will feature official Team17 events and whatnot.
9. The game will only launch with 6 themes, but each of the themes is hand-drawn and feature modular 'pieces' of map, and when the map generator generates a map, it is capable of making beautiful random maps that look like they're hand-made. Also, the game *will* be supporting custom map importing.
No word yet on maximum map dimensions, but they have listened to us and are providing that feature.
10. It is a possibility that they will allow players to add bot teams for online multiplayer.
11. F-keys will be fully customizable.
12. Teams are no longer tied to profiles.
13. Only one player per computer/system for online matches... which I don't see as a huge issue anyway since most people who add 2 teams are lying anyway.
14. 60 FPS animations.
15. Vehicles, of course. In addition to the tank and helicopter there are others that haven't been revealed yet. Vehicles can be hijacked, and if you get caught in one when it takes enough damage to blow up, it does massive damage.
16. Buildings. You can only see inside of a building if your active worm is inside of the building. This will allow for some sneaky new game play.
17. Mounted weapons. On the terrain there will be mounted weapons that you can use like machine guns, sniper rifles, etc.
I don't want to get overly excited, but this could be the Worms game we've been waiting for. All of the gameplay footage thus far is beta and Team17 is actively listening to the community. They have stated that they made WMD specifically because most worms players say that W:A is the best of the series. I'm going to buy it regardless of whether the rope is 100% identical. All of the Worms games are good in their own way, and I've found that if you don't like one at first, it WILL grow on you.
I personally hope that WMD is the bomb and that lots of W:A players migrate over. We need more old schoolers to play the newer games because I f@#!ing dominate and I need competition.
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